Up until the Newt Gingrich's rise to power, the Libertarians were, fairly or unfairly, deemed Conservative's useful idiots.

The Republicans know full well what a destructive force he is, and they know to one extent or another he's going to do them damage. But the core desire of the Libertarian wing of the party is the decimation of the Federal Government, so they'll accept a few body blows in service of the cause.

Lithium aspartate, for example

The least-harm principle. There's essentially universal agreement that low (dietary-range) levels of lithium are not harmful, while the research as a whole is strongly suggestive of a benefit (but has not yet met the standards of, for example. an EPA regulatory standard for lithium in drinking water). Lithium, at the doses necessary, costs basically nothing, takes seconds to take, and is orders of magnitude away from the levels where potential toxicity symptoms can arise. To me, that's an easy call. Also, Alzheimer's runs in my family, so there's an extra factor weighing on the scale.

No issues with aspartate. It dissociates fully upon dissolution. L-aspartate is a building block to proteins. D-aspartate is also naturally found and used in the body.

What Trump advocates for is post-economics trade policy.

The post-economics extortion is best to be modelled by the policy ideas of little kids.

Espionage = revealing state secrets to a foreign power.

I assume that Intel is not alleged to forward state secrets to a foreign government.

So what is the crime here, that Intel makes business with other countries?

They have core beliefs. Those beliefs are orthogonal to what we would deem to be normative politics.

Or being one of the companies with so much cash that, as of yet, Trump doesn't have sufficient levers of state in his hand to bring to bear.

The difference between statism and regulatory capture approaches 0 as you increase authoritarianism. The difference between capitalist oligarchy and party apparatchik is a distinction without a difference. They just spout the same sermon with different adjectives.

All of the salts you listed fully dissociate in water.

Nothing weird about sodium fluoride, fluorosilicic acid, or sodium fluorosilicate. Sodium fluoride is a simple salt, dissociates immediately upon dissolution to Na+ and F-. Fluorosilicic acid and sodium fluorisilicate result in a fluorosilicate ion (SiF-2) which rapidly hydrolyzes to Si(OH)4 + 6F- + 4H+. Si(OH)4 (orthosilicic acid) is the form of soluble silicon which plants and diatoms consume and is perfectly normal in water in the tiny amounts from fluoridation (like 6 micromolar concentration). Ocean surface water near Antarctica for example is up to ~80 micromolar concentration. And it goes without saying that minuscule amounts of sodium in water are also perfectly normal. The addition of the fluoride ion is the only actually meaningful impact.

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Really annoying that lithium orotate became the standard way to deliver lithium, given that orotic acid is toxic and mutagenic :P

TL/DR, it affects the enzymes that regulate these processes.